Who Was Alive

Were Primo Levi and Barack Obama alive at the same time?

Yes. Primo Levi and Barack Obama were alive at the same time for 25 years, from 1961 to 1987.

Primo Levi was 42 when Barack Obama was born.

Barack Obama was 25 when Primo Levi died, aged 67.

Primo Levi

Italian chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, and writer

Born 31 July 1919 · died 11 April 1987, aged 67

Barack Obama

44th President of the United States

Born 4 August 1961 · living, 65 as of September 2026

  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Adolf Hitler
  3. Ronald Reagan
  4. Nelson Mandela
  5. Primo Levi
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  7. Vladimir Putin
  8. Michael Jackson
  9. Barack Obama
Primo Levi and Barack Obama in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.